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He is a madman with the
mind of a genius and an expert with technology who stalks his prey,
then taunts the police. Eve Dallas found the first dead man in his own
home and the second in a vacant apartment. They both had links with a
secret.

Valerie Dearborn wants a
cotton candy life filled with light sweetness, but it’s more like a
puffer fish: pointy, unusual, and—if not prepared exactly right—deadly.

In
London for graduate school, Val knows she's finally free. Her father
and ex-almost-boyfriend are back in California and she's out of the
Vampire hunting biz for good. Or is she?

She draws the attention
of Lucas, a 1600 year old Vampire, and King to his kind. He’s also
wicked hot. As golden as Lucifer, and just as tempting, he makes Valerie
an offer she can't refuse— help him find out if the Others (Empaths,
Fey and Werewolves) still exist or he'll stop protecting those she
loves.

Lucas tells her that Empaths were a Vampire’s biggest
weakness before going extinct hundreds of years ago. While the Fey or a
Werewolf might kill a Vampire, an Empath could enslave them, seducing or
harming with emotions at will. The one detail he leaves out? Valerie is
an Empath.

And after 1600 years of an emotionless existence, Lucas wants Valerie like a recovering alcoholic wants a wine cooler.

Can
she keep those she loves alive, stop Lucas from munching on her,
survive a fanged revolution and still find a way to have that boring,
normal life she’s always wanted? Probably not, but boy is she gonna try!

Carmel from Rabid Read recommended this series, and I quite enjoyed the first book. It's not overly melodramatic, and the vampires in it are believable. They are bored,capricious and ruthless. The fans of D.B. Reynolds and Laurel K. Hamilton should appreciate it.

Set in
seventeenth century Amsterdam-a city ruled by glittering wealth and
oppressive religion-a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and
shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah
Waters, and Sarah Dunant

"There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed..."

On
a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in
Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader
Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming.
Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his
warehouse office-leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued
and forbidding Marin.

But Nella's world changes when Johannes
presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica
of their home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a
miniaturist-an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror
their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways . . .

Johannes'
gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household.
But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand-and
fear-the escalating dangers that await them all. In this repressively
pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be
different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man
as rich as Johannes is safe. Only one person seems to see the fate that
awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation . . . or the
architect of their destruction?

Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.

It is a really pretty book to read, beautifully written, gloomy, quirky and atmospheric. I know a lot of people had trouble with slow narration, but on audio it worked really well. The characters is the strength of this book, weird, wonderful and so very different from each other.

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